Jobs of the Week: Atria Books, Simon & Schuster, HGTV Magazine

Atria Books

Title: Publishing Assistant

Type: Full-time

Location: New York, NY

Description:
As part of the Publishing Office, the Publishing Assistant is essential to the effective management of Atria’s diverse publishing program. While there is a significant administrative element, this is a thinking person’s job with creative responsibilities and opportunities. The ideal candidate will be organized, able to juggle multiple tasks, a strong verbal and written communicator, and a problem solver. Must have experience with excel and PowerPoint.

Major duties include:
— Work directly with the Publisher, Associate Publisher, and Editorial Director to maintain seasonal publishing lists and presentation schedules to the sales team
— Schedule weekly, monthly and seasonal sales meetings, which includes working with editors to compile materials in a timely fashion for distribution to sales

Organize weekly departmental meetings and materials

Support the Marketing Managers with mailings and creation of marketing materials, including sellsheets, reading group guides, back ads, author Q&A, and digital bonus content

— Work closely with all departments in the company, including editorial, Sales, Subrights, Production, Art, and Managing Editorial
— Administrative duties as Assistant to the Associate Publisher

Simon & Schuster

Title: Desktop Publishing Assistant

Type: Full-time

Location: New York, NY

Description:
The Simon & Schuster Design and Digital Content Development group is hiring a desktop publishing assistant to support the team. The assistant will be responsible for typesetting and composition of new books, including making corrections to existing files, creating enlargement and reduction samples, flowing books in InDesign, reflowing books to meet new trim sizes, and creating new books based on existing designs. Beyond composition work, there will be opportunities to learn to design print and ebooks and to produce finished ebooks. The assistant should be self-motivated, detail-oriented, and organized. Because the job is very deadline-sensitive, this person must be able to manage his or her time well.

HGTV Magazine

Title: Advertising Sales Assistant

Type: Full-time

Location: New York, NY

Description:
HGTV Magazine is currently looking for an Advertising Sales Assistant to join their team in New York. This entry-level job will be supporting three high-level advertising sales representative in an administrative capacity.

Main job responsibilities include: RFP completion, competitive analysis, ad positioning reports, scheduling appointments, mailings, maintaining the comp list, and completing expense reports. This position would also require general administrative duties such as scheduling meetings and making travel arrangements. The ideal candidate will be a pro-active self-starter, have great communication and organizational skills, and take initiative for completing tasks.

Requirements:

– We are looking for someone with at least 1 internship experience within a media company with exposure to ad sales or marketing, with a strong interest in print magazine sales.
– The successful candidate also should have MS Office Suite experience– (especially Excel and PowerPoint).

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